List of Governors-General of India from 1732 to 1950

1. Warren Hastings 
Warren Hastings was born on Dec. 6, 1732, in Churchill, near Daylesford, in a poor family. He was the first Governor-General of Bengal from 1773 to 1785. He was accused of corruption and impeached in 1787, but after a long trial he was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1814.He died on 22 August 1818.
2. Sir John Macpherson
Sir John Macpherson was born on 1745. He was the acting Governor-General of India from 1785 to 1786. He was died on 12 January 1821. In March 1767 he sailed for India, nominally as purser of an East India ship.
3. The Earl Cornwallis
Earl Cornwallis was born on December 31, 1738 in London. Having been educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge, he entered the army. For some time he was a member of parliament for in 1761.  He served a campaign in Germany, He was appointed in February 1786 to serve as both Commander-in-Chief of British India and Governor of the Presidency of Fort William, also known as the Bengal Presidency. Lord Charles Cornwallis was a British army officer, civil administrator, and diplomat. He died on 5 October 1805.
4. Sir John Shore
Sir John Shore was born on 1751, he was the chief revenue adviser during the reign of Warren Hastings, became the Governor General of India during 1793-1797. After coming in India in 1768, Sir John Shore was appointed as a novice in the English East India Company. He also worked in the Secret Political Department of the company. Shore was the first president of the British and Foreign Bible Society.  He died on 14 February 1834.
5. Sir Alured Clarke
Sir Alured Clarke was born on 24 November 1744. He was a British army officer. He took charge of all British troops in Georgia. He went on to be Governor of Jamaica and then lieutenant-governor of Lower Canada in which he had responsibility for implementing the Constitutional Act 1791. He was then sent to India where he became Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, then Governor-General of India from 18 March 1798 to 18 May 1798 and finally Commander-in-Chief of India during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. He was died 1832.
6. The Marquess Wellesley – From 18 May 1798 to 30 July 1805.
7. The Marquess Cornwallis – From 30 July 1805 to 5 October 1805.
8. Sir George Barlow, Bt- From 10 October 1805 to 31 July 1807.
9. The Lord Minto - From 31 July 1807 to 4 October 1813.
10. The Marquess of Hastings - From 4 October 1813 to 9 January 1823.
11. John Adam 9 January - From 1823 to 1 August 1823.
12. The Lord Amherst – From 1 August 1823 to 13 March 1828.
13. William Butterworth Bayley- From 13 March 1828 to 4 July 1828.
14. Lord William Bentinck – From 4 July 1828 to 1833.
Governor-General of India, 1833–1858
15. Lord William Bentinck – From 1833 to 20 March 1835.
16. Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bt – From 20 March 1835 to 4 March 1836.
17. The Lord Auckland - From 4 March 1836 to 28 February 1842.
18. The Lord Ellenborough - From 28 February to 1842 to June 1844.
19. William Wilberforce Bird – From June 1844 to 23 July 1844.
20. Sir Henry Hardinge - From 23 July 1844 to 12 January 1848.
21. The Marquess of Dalhousie - From 12 January 1848 28 February 1856.
22. The Viscount Canning - From 28 February 1856 to 1 November 1858.
Governor-General and Viceroys of India, 1858–1947
23. Earl Canning – From 1 November 1858 21 March 1862.
24. The Earl of Elgin – From 21 March 1862 to 20 November 1863.
25. Robert Napier- From 21 November 1863 to 2 December 1863.
26. William Denison - From 2 December 1863    12 January 1864.
27. John Lawrence Bt – From 12 January 1864   12 January 1869.
28. Earl of Mayo – From 12 January 1869 to 8 February 1872.
29. Sir John Strachey - From 9 February 1872 to 23 February 1872.
30. The Lord Napier – From 24 February 1872 to 3 May 1872.
31. The Lord Northbrook - From 3 May 1872 to 12 April 1876.
32. The Lord Lytton – From 12 April 1876 to 8 June 1880.
33. The Marquess of Ripon – From 8 June 1880  to 13 December 1884.
34. The Earl of Dufferin – From 13 December 1884to 10 December 1888.
35. The Marquess of Lansdowne – From 10 December 1888 to 11 October 1894.
36. The Earl of Elgin – From 11 October 1894 to 6 January 1899.
37. The Lord Curzon of Kedleston – From 6 January 1899 to 18 November 1905.
38. The Earl of Minto – From 18 November 1905 to 23 November 1910.
39. The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst – From 23 November 1910 to4 April 1916.
40. The Lord Chelmsford- From 4 April 1916 to 2 April 1921.
41. The Earl of Reading – From 2 April 1921 to 3 April 1926.
42. The Lord Irwin – from 3 April 1926  18 April 1931.
43. The Earl of Willingdon- From18 April 1931 to 18 April 1936.
44. The Marquess of Linlithgow – from 18 April 1936    1 October 1943.
45. The Viscount Wavell – From 1 October 1943 to 21 February 1947.
46. The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma- From21 February 1947 to 15 August 1947.
Governor-General of the Union of India, 1947–1950
47. The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma 15 August 1947 to 21 June 1948.
48. C. Rajagopalachari 21 June 1948 to 26 January 1950.

FACTS

Sir George Barlow (1805 – 07)

·         Signed treaty of Rajpur ghat with ya want Rao Holker

 Lord Minto – I (1807 – 13)

·         Signed treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809)

 Lord Hastings (1813 – 23)

·         Anglo – Nepal war (1814 – 16):- end of war by treaty of Sangoli (1816).

·         पिण्डरियों का दमन

  Lord Adams (1823)

·         Banned on press.

  Lord Amherst (1823 – 28)

·         1^st Burmese war (1824 – 26):- end of war by treaty of Yandubu (1826).

. Lord William Bentick (1828 – 35)

·         Become govt. general of India by charter Act 1833.

·         Abolished sati system

·         Restricted discrimination in civil services.

·         Regarded as the father of modern western education in India

·         Most liberal & enlightened govt. general of India

·         Macaulay's  minute on education accepted”.

·         Established Calcutta medical college in 1835.

·         Appointed Divisional commissioner

 Charles Metcalf (1835 – 36)

·         Abolished ban on press.

·         Liberator of press

 Lord Auckland (1836 – 42)

·         First Anglo-Afgan war (1838 – 42)

·         Tripalle Alliance – EIC, Ranjit Singh & Shahsuja

·         Change the name of ‘shershah suri’ road as G. T. Road.

Lord Ellenborough (1842 – 44)

·         Merge Sindh in 1843.

·         Abolished ‘slave’ system in 1843.

 Lord Harding – I (1844 – 48)

·         1^st Anglo-Sikh war:- end of war by treaty of Lahore.

 Lord Dalhousie (1848 – 56)

·         Merge Punjab in 1852, 2^nd Anglo – Sikh war (1848 – 49)

·         2^nd Anglo – Burmese war in 1852

·         Merge Sikkim in 1850

·         Introduction the doctrine of Lapse & annexation of Satara (1848), Jaitpur & Sambhalpur (1849) Banghat (1850), Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853), Nagpur (1854) & Awadh (1856)

·         Woods dispatch (1854) (Education related)

·         Railway minute 1853, & Laying down of First railway line connecting Bombay & thane in 1853.

·         Telegraph & Postal reforms. (Post office act – 1854)

·         Introduced electric telegraph between Calcutta & Agra.

·         Established a separate public works department in every province.

·         Window remarriage act 1856.

 Lord canning (1856 – 57)

·         Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, madras & Bombay in 1857.

·         Revolt 1857.

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